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Re: allegorithmic or quixel
if i may jump in ... it would be the same as when peoples ask me about maya or blender ... while blender is a great tool.. ( even if somehow quircky ) , if you want to work in a professional environment , you better use the tools that are part of teh pipeline.. ( and they are for a good reason ) when we talk about… -
Re: Fresnel in Vray for Maya
I've been trying to do something similar to that. Using 3ds max and vray we built these little scenes, made textures, materials and lighting all inside vray so by the end we had this little render scene all set up and looking lovely. We could show these renders to producers and get them signed off before we had to bake a… -
Re: Hand Painted texture skills
Just to try and answer your question, it's because assets created in the MMO-type of hand-painted stuff are diffuse-heavy. Meaning, the asset and the artist relies on the diffuse map to convey what the material is. The assets you're talking about, like those that Naughty Dog does, rely on the shader to convey what the… -
Re: EA Louse or Mythic Rant or EA Rant
i also find patronage and intrigues are common in higher positions and abstract managing positions. i can say this after ~12 years in business. but i think its common for all industries out there. just talk to your friends in other jobs. i cannot prove it but i feel that the more the job is away from the actual production… -
Re: Seeing Polygons
When I see people more often women I see them in shaded mode with wireframe turned on. When my girlfriend talks to me on the phone or in the car I see exactly how I need to model and unwrap things, this ends when i get in front of the computer. I have been thinking of buying a head phone with mic and work while I talk to… -
Re: Dig London - Proper Conference Etiquette
Well, if you get to talk to someone, make sure its a artist dude, if you talk to a programmer and show him your art its not going to help you as much as if he/she is working with the art side of things. I would definately bring some hardcopies of your work and maybe prepare cards with your contact info, who knows how much… -
Re: Hellgate: London
I played a build at E3 for a bit and talked to one of the developers. What they've shown so far is really really early and it seems like they're still feeling out a lot of the direction. I was impressed with the amount of weapon customizations and the fact that certain creatures could only be killed by certain weapons, so… -
Re: Save our forests (UK)
Well, the thing is is that sometimes (and increasingly more so lately) general discussion becomes way too general. It's not a place to just rant and be a dick about absolutely anything and it's not a place to start dropping political rants, unless they involve the games industry. While some recent threads (ahem, DW) got… -
Re: Cryengine 3 Global illumunation
No, it's %100 real-time. I saw it at SIGGRAPH, heard him talk about it, I've talked to him through email about a few issues with it too. The main advantage is that it is all real-time, no baking. Enlighten is really nice, but the pre-baking time is very slow, you can't move static geo around, you have to create custom… -
Re: A Bug's Life.... Awesome article about being QA
My current job at Locomotive has been awesome. Other than the gripe that I'm QA and not an artist / designer there, my only real complaints have been that one of the other three guys I work with is a clueless idiot who tries to act like he knows anything and everything, and is constantly appearing out of nowhere and…
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